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Sparrow (Chinese: 文雀; pinyin: Wen que; Cantonese Yale: Man jeuk) is a 2008 Hong Kong caper film produced and directed by Johnnie To. The film stars veteran Milkyway Image cast and crew alumni Simon Yam, Lam Ka-Tung, Law Wing-Cheong and Kenneth Cheung as a small gang of pickpockets, with each member being mysteriously approached by a beautiful Taiwanese woman (Kelly Lin) with a hidden agenda.
Sparrow remained in pre-production for three years from 2005 to 2008, with To shooting the film in between other projects. The film was selected in competition at the 58th Berlin International Film Festival, premiering during the festival in February 2008. It was released in Hong Kong on 19 June 2008.
Kei (Simon Yam) is the experienced leader of a team of pickpockets.(Pickpockets are also known as "Sparrows" in Hong Kong slang). He enjoys a carefree lifestyle taking photos with his vintage Rolleiflex. One day a dashing beauty, Chun-Lei (Kelly Lin), suddenly appears in Kei's viewfinder. Kei is mesmerized. Every member of his team has an encounter with her.... But behind Chun-Lei's attractive facade lies a mysterious past and a mission to set herself free.
Actors: Ilayaraja (composer), Adithya (actor), Myshkin (actor), Myshkin (producer), Myshkin (writer), Myshkin (director), Neelima Rani (actress), Joseph Vijay (actor), Sriram (actor), Sri (actor), Shaji (actor), Raghu Shankar (actor), Shaukat (actor), Siddhanth (actor), Ravi Venkatraman (actor),
Plot: The entire film happens during one night in Chennai. One night Chandran (Shri) an upright medical student sees a badly injured stranger on a deserted road. Chandran takes the man with bullet injuries on his bike to hospitals which refuse to treat him. And unwittingly the young man's destiny is tied up with man whom he saved a killer on the run.
Keywords: chennai, police, serial-killerActors: Carrie Ng (actress), Alan Mak (director), Henry Fong (actor), Wai Lam (actor), Tony Leung Chiu Wai (actor), Kwong Wing Chan (composer), Alan Mak (writer), Ronald Wong (producer), Kuo Hsing Li (producer), Xun Zhou (actress), Chi Leung 'Jacob' Cheung (actor), Felix Chong (writer), Felix Chong (director), Curran Pang (editor), Lap-Man Tan (actor),
Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller,Actors: Jordan Chan (actor), Ekin Cheng (actor), John Chong (producer), Alan Mak (producer), Alex Fong (actor), Ronald Wong (producer), On-on Yu (actress), Felix Chong (director), Felix Chong (writer), Kwok Cheung Tsang (actor), Fung Kwok (actor), Mo-Chan Chik (actor), Lorraine Ho (miscellaneous crew), Conroy Chan Chi-Chung (actor), Chi Wai Chan (editor),
Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime,Actors: Jim McKeown (actor), Stan Carp (actor), John Carlino (writer), John Carlino (director), John Carlino (actor), John Carlino (producer), Debra RonsValle (miscellaneous crew), Michael Oberlander (director), Michael Oberlander (actor), Eric P. Robinson (actor), Eric P. Robinson (producer), Peter Lopez (composer), Elizabeth Halpern (actress), Richard Dunne (editor), Kelly Kingham (actress),
Genres: Romance,Actors: Joe Santos (actor), Henry G. Sanders (actor), Ned Bellamy (actor), Jerrold L. Ludwig (writer), Matthew Gross (miscellaneous crew), Will Patton (actor), Jack Scalia (actor), Jerrold L. Ludwig (writer), Stephen Lovejoy (editor), Kathryn Harrold (actress), Carol Kravetz (miscellaneous crew), Douglas Rowe (actor), David Grant Wright (actor), Erik Thompson (actor), Vanessa Greene (producer),
Plot: Ex-L.A. cop, Frank Decker, now works for a private security firm in San Diego. During the course of his job he meets the beautiful Angela who's married to a wealthy man who'll kill her if she ever leaves him. (Or so she says.) Decker falls hard for Angela and soon becomes involved in a passionate affair which culminates in murder.
Keywords: adultery, bare-chested-male, murderActors: John Clayton (actor), Robert Coleby (actor), Scott Hicks (writer), Scott Hicks (director), Scott Hicks (producer), Vincent Gil (actor), Patrick Frost (actor), Elizabeth Alexander (actress), Allan Zavod (composer), Pip Karmel (editor), Darryl Sheen (producer), Heather Oxenham (miscellaneous crew), Kerry Heysen (miscellaneous crew), Jennie Crowley (miscellaneous crew), Terry Ohlsson (producer),
Plot: The story of the unlikely friendship between two teenage boys from vastly different cultural backgrounds. Sparrow is a working-class street kid and Sebastien a middle-class boy of privilege. One day, they meet at a video-game arcade. Together, they become friends and embark on a journey of self-discovery to locate Sparrow's long-lost mother, an immigrant Vietnamese woman.
Keywords: arcade, cultural-difference, friend, friendship, independent-film, long-lost-mother, mother-son-relationship, search, search-for-mother, self-discoveryActors: Merlin Olsen (actor), Melinda Dillon (actress), Eugene Roche (actor), Joel Fluellen (actor), James T. Callahan (actor), Michael Ray Rhodes (producer), Michael Ray Rhodes (director), Anatole France (writer), Patrick Collins (actor), Ellwood Kieser (producer), Henry Proach (actor), Jean Le Bouvier (actress), Sherilyn Wolter (actress), Lan O'Kun (producer), Lan O'Kun (writer),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Robert 'Buzz' Henry (actor), Ken Russell (actor), Don Jordan (actor), James H. Russell (writer), James H. Russell (actor), James H. Russell (director), Carmen Nisbet (actress), Bob Tetrick (actor), Pamela Russell (actress), Aletia Adams (actress), Toni Jackson (actress), Ross Macdonald (actor), Maxine West (actress), Dan Henry (actor), Jon Castle (actor),
Genres: Crime,Actors: Henry Rowland (actor), Ken Terrell (actor), Pat Brady (actor), Robert Bice (actor), Edmund Cobb (actor), Roy Rogers (actor), John Hamilton (actor), Rex Lease (actor), Eddie Lee (actor), Jack Low (actor), Post Park (actor), Stuart Randall (actor), Duke Green (actor), Lane Bradford (actor), Trigger (actor),
Plot: Mine owner George Perez, transporting a load of uranium, is ambushed and left for dead after a fall over a cliff. Badly hurt, he makes his way to town doctor Frank Harding (Leo Cleary), secretly the boss of the outlaw gang working with a foreign government to steal the uranium,who poisons him and passes his death off as the result of an accident. The mine passes into the hands of rancher/businessman Craig Bennett, who makes a claim for the Uranium loss and the company sends Roy Rogers (Roy Rogers) to investigate. He comes to Coronado posing as a cowhand looking for work and gets a job as a member of a line crew that includes Foy Willing (Foy Willing) and the Riders of the Purple Sage(Darol Rice, Al Sloey and George Bamby)working for Bennett's Coronado Power and Light Company. Roy also runs into an old friend, Sparrow Biffle (Pat Brady), who is a helper to Bennett's secretary Pam Reynolds (Dale Evans.) Just as Roy has uncovered evidence linking Dr. Harding, henchman Ross (Clifton Young) and his men succeed in hi-jacking the ore from a warehouse and on the trail to where their contact man is to pick it up by airplane and fly it out of the country.
Keywords: horse, insurance-agent, physician, smuggler, thief, trucolor, uraniumActors: Benny Baker (actor), Carroll Nye (actor), Wade Boteler (actor), Frankie Darro (actor), William B. Davidson (actor), Charles Arnt (actor), Billy Engle (actor), Jon Hall (actor), Paul Harvey (actor), Arthur Housman (actor), Bud Jamison (actor), Jack La Rue (actor), Gene Lockhart (actor), William Demarest (actor), Charles Ruggles (actor),
Genres: Comedy,All around us flies the snow
Winter finds us moving slow
From a dark wood comes the sound
Of a tall tree falling down
Little sparrow, did you hear?
Wings of angels draw you near
Breath of winter chills the ground
Now a tall tree's fallen down
Little sparrow, did you weep?
Did you wake from restless sleep?
Was your heart then turned around
By a tall tree falling down?
From the dark wood comes the sound
Breath of winter chills the ground
Was your heart then turned around
Sparrow?
Little sparrow, still you fly
Still you gaze into the sky
Are you longing, do you yearn
For a tall tree to return?
All around us flies the snow
Winter finds us moving slow
From a dark wood comes the sound